Put the ridiculous onslaught of rumors to bed, folks. It’s not Joe Manganiello and it sure ain’t Ryan Gosling. The actor that will next wear the black mask with the pointy ears and long cape, while calling himself the Batman, is none other than Ben Affleck. That’s right – the Daredevil.

According to Variety, the deal is done and the rumors are as dead as Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne pretended to be at the end of The Dark Knight Rises. Oh, spoiler alert, of course.

The actor will replace Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in the upcoming untitled Superman-Batman feature for Warner Bros., the studio announced Thursday.

This is sure to be a pick that gets people shaking their fists in rage, because, well, Daredevil. But the Aff-man has been pretty darn hot lately, so maybe this is his big second chance on the superhero stage. Fingers crossed.

While that post was mostly sarcasm and I don’t really expect him to direct SvB, I wouldn’t be surprised if this deal involved him directing an eventual JL movie. Playing Batman was supposedly his condition when they supposedly approached him previously.

I remember when Heath Ledger was announced as the Joker I was raging and calling him a faggot and just being a dumb internet neckbeard. I will not make the same mistake twice. This could work and hopefully Zack and company will do something interesting with Affleck.

Agreed. Then again, what exactly did Bale bring to being Batman that was so amazing outside the gravely voice? The suit can do a lot of the work for you…
(and mad respect for the Director’s Cut of Daredevil!)

It was better, I guess, but Mark Steven Johnson is really a guy who does romantic comedy, not superhero movies. The one good part about Ghost Rider was when Nic Cage was completely honest that he was possessed by a demon from Hell, and got bitched out by his romantic interest.

The aspects of Daredevil that bothered me the most were too many instances of images & dialogue pulled directly from specific Daredevil comics. I appreciate homages and adaptations of source material, but it came across excessively, to the point it seemed just lazy.

I remember reading an article about how Ben Affleck was approached to direct Justice League but only on the condition that he played Batman. Looks like he got half his wish. Bummed that Bale won’t return as he was the best IMO but I will wait until a trailer is out before I write Affleck off. At least it’s not that fruit Armie Hammer.

I’m not going to rage about this although it is a bit difficult to see him playing Batman. Most of the goodwill he managed to regain was a result of his surprising abilities as a director not as an actor.

“This Supahman comes in to OWA town wearin his undeweahs on the outside of a leotawd like a gay homeless fawk and thinks he can get away with murdah-ing OWA villians? I am the fawkin Batman. I murdah owa villains. NO ONE DENIES THIS”

THE BATMAN IS JUST GOOD SYMBOLOGY FOR BAWSTON ITSELF. IT WILL ALWAYS PERSEVEAH AND WILL ALWAYS BE GRITTY EXCEPT THAT GHEY CLOONEY FELLAH HE IS NOT WORTHY OF WEAHIN THE BAWSTON BAT COWL EVEN THAT KEETON PANSY AND THE FORENER ON THE ROIDS WEAH BETTAH THAN THAT GUY MORE LIKE CLOWNEY RIGHT AHAHAHAHAHAHHA GO PATS

The only thing I am aware that Boston does that the rest of you don’t, is it holds a large number of superior people whom, as a matter of course, are Anglophiles. Is that the root of this seething hate you have?.

It’s because Boston sports teams have won a bunch of championships fairly recently, so the townies around here have been pretty visible. Give it five years, and everybody will be back to mocking Yankees fans.

I still think the idea of putting an older, bitter past his prime Dark Knight Returns Batman into the story before they ever even form the Justice League is f’n stupid. Batman will be Alfred’s age if there’s ever a Justice League 2.